I have both the Hardangervidda albums. Some of the best ambient work I've heard (aside from Burzum. No one touches Burzum). The black metal albums are proving to be a royal bitch in the ass to hunt down... and pricey!

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Glance into my eyes
and see the darkest shadows dancing
Playing in the desert of my life
Burning, -
and my soul is descending...

I went to turn on Forest Poetry, and decided to pull up the lyrics first. Then I discovered that he never released the lyrics so metal-archives doesn't have them. Discuss.. Or find me the lyrics cause I'm too lazy to google it.. Either way.

I went to turn on Forest Poetry, and decided to pull up the lyrics first. Then I discovered that he never released the lyrics so metal-archives doesn't have them. Discuss.. Or find me the lyrics cause I'm too lazy to google it.. Either way.

Vidar only released lyrics for a single song. It's the first song off the self-titled Ildjarn-Hidhogg album.

Heard the band before, even read the guys Final Statements, but I just don't understand the appeal. The music doesn't in any way give off a foresty or nature-like vibe, instead just gives off the sense that it's been made to give off extreme brutality, but that's all it gives off.

Overall, from what I've heard it doesn't make me feel impressed by the atmosphere, instead I'm left in a state of boredom.

Heard the band before, even read the guys Final Statements, but I just don't understand the appeal. The music doesn't in any way give off a foresty or nature-like vibe, instead just gives off the sense that it's been made to give off extreme brutality, but that's all it gives off.

Overall, from what I've heard it doesn't make me feel impressed by the atmosphere, instead I'm left in a state of boredom.

Hrm, perhaps you're listening for the wrong things... to me, it does evince nature, just not in a typical, cliche manner. Riffmast said in another thread that Ildjarn represents natural violence, like wolves fighting over a carcass, or something, which is a fairly apt description IMO. The imagery I get from Ildjarn is decidedly bleak and "human", so in that way I would say it is natural, as opposed to dreamlike in the manner of say... Burzum.

Yeah exactly, it's not nature like" law di daw I'm in a wonderful forest" kind of worship of nature, it's more so a representation of natural law,and a certain feral essence that stands against humanist propaganda. It always seemed to me that the point of Ildjarn, and it's stripped down approach was to show a removal of socialized human judgement and the human ego, that clouds people abilities to look beyond their own perspective and look at the world as a whole.It is understanding that things are never "ought to be", the wolves will tear at the carcass for food, and the action of it is in no way evil or good, it just is what it is, that judgement afterwards is plastic. Apply this outlook on a more grand sense and you basically have Ildjarn.

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Originally Posted by Steve08

Acid probably makes you feel less like a hedonistic raver piece of trash, too.

I think most of the chaotic natural feel really comes from the production. If the production was of a higher quality, it just wouldnt give off the same vibe. Then again, I guess you could say that about most black metal.

During most of its active life, this one-man band (with occasional collaborators) was ignored for being primitive, primal, raw and feral. Its few-chord songs and droning incessant beat made it an obvious target for mockery; from a distance, it sounded like a mis-tuned Toyota with a broken fan belt.

However, as the 1990s wore on and it became clear that black metal had expressed itself fully and wasn’t “coming back,” people listened to the advice of our reviews and decided that Ildjarn was, after all, part of the essential black metal collection.

In the mid-2000s, Ildjarn re-surfaced with a spate of re-releases on Northern Heritage Records and Full Moon Productions, but then vanished as its creator moved on to other things. However, as of this month, Season of Mist Records plans to re-release the entire Ildjarn catalogue, first digitally and later, on CD and LP.

I have both the Hardangervidda albums. Some of the best ambient work I've heard (aside from Burzum. No one touches Burzum). The black metal albums are proving to be a royal bitch in the ass to hunt down... and pricey!

Don't know if this is still relevant but I found a forest poetry cassette on ebay easily enough, it was probably $5-10.